Cal York's Inside Stuff: December 1956

 SO LONG SAFARI

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Jane Powell is sick about the $2,000 sunk in safari clothes and equipment that is now gathering mildew in Nairobi. Janie had shipped her clothes ahead, thinking she’d follow them soon, then got the lead in The Girl Most Likely. By the time the picture was finished, the African rainy season was in full downpour. But diminutive Janie is determined to hunt those wild animals, says she’ll make it next year.

BAND-AID ANYONE?

Doris Day’s son Terry is more impressed with his famous mom these days than ever before—all because of a blister on her big toe. Doris is kind of proud of it, too, and justifiably so, since she got it playing tennis with famous pro star Pancho Gonzales. At the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she takes lessons, they’re calling Doris the six months’ wonder; few people can play the game she does in that length of time. But the wonder to us is how Pancho can keep his mind on the game across the net from the beauteous Dodo.

ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN

So it goes with Kim Novak and Frank Sinatra. When George Scullin was interviewing Kim for her life story in Photoplay Kim insisted that she never, never saw Frankie except when they were working together, then she promptly appeared at a premiere with Sinatra by her side. No one can deny Frank’s charm, but there are also a good many lassies about town with scorched hearts who can attest to the fact that this fire burns.

From the Photoplay archives.